Saturday, 31 May 2014

Yesterday was a rather strange day in Washington. Obama accepted two resignations: One from his VA chief, who had foolishly believed the lies told by his subordinates, and the other from his own press secretary, who was tired of telling lies on his behalf.

Meanwhile, here’s an ad that’s been playing on radio talker Howie Carr’s show. It seems that while some vets weren’t getting care for months, others were being promptly seen—sometimes by doctors from Harvard Medical School:

Friday, 30 May 2014

Our long national nightmare is over. Let me point a couple of things out. First, I’ve never invited a black multi-millionaire celebrity to a basketball game, so I must be a racist. Second, this website is for sale ...

Nobody’s happy when a toddler is critically injured by a flash-bang grenade during a drug raid, but fairness requires better reporting than the Daily Mail and some other outlets have engaged in. The paper mananged to get some photos of the horribly injured tyke, but had this to say about the raid:

Cornelia Police Chief Rick Darby confirmed the raid took place at the home just before 3 a.m.

He said a multijurisdictional drug unit issued a warrant and organized the SWAT operation. It's not clear if any drugs were found in the home during the raid.

Hillary Clinton offers a detailed account of the deadly attack on the American embassy in Benghazi — and a pointed rebuttal to Republican critics who’ve laced into her over the incident — in a much-anticipated chapter of her forthcoming book, “Hard Choices,” obtained by POLITICO.

“Those who exploit this tragedy over and over as a political tool minimize the sacrifice of those who served our country,” Clinton writes in the gripping chapter, “Benghazi: Under Attack.”

Casting doubt on the motivations of congressional Republicans who have continued to investigate the attacks, including with an upcoming House select committee, Clinton continues: “I will not be a part of a political slugfest on the backs of dead Americans. It’s just plain wrong, and it’s unworthy of our great country. Those who insist on politicizing the tragedy will have to do so without me.”

But you can’t hold a whole fraternity responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn’t we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn’t this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg - isn’t this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but we’re not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America. Gentlemen!

Remember when Obambi’s “stimulus” failed to create jobs? The alibi was that the stimulus was as powerful as advertised, but the economy was so bad that it merely “saved” jobs instead of creating them. The same reasoning is at work here:

State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki was openly mocked by the assembled press corps Thursday after saying President Obama “doesn’t give himself enough credit for what he’s done around the world.”

Associated Press reporter Matt Lee asked sarcastically whether he deserved 200 percent credit, while another one wondered for what “accomplishments” Psaki meant he deserves more praise.

“For engagement initiatives like Iran, what we’ve done on Ukraine, efforts to dive in and engage around the world,” she said.

Yep, if not for Obambi, Iran would have had nukes a year ago, instead of a year from now, and Putin would be occupying Paris as well as Crimea.

Edward Snowden, who absconded with carloads of intelligence data—most entirely unrelated to metadata programs—and defected to Russia, never raised any concerns to the NSA before vamoosing. (Via Drudge.)

Wednesday, 28 May 2014

From the first moments of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration, when he initially declared his midnight swearing-in off limits to the media, he has established a record of frequently conducting public business in private, with dozens of events closed to the press.

In nearly five months in office, de Blasio barred the media from 53 events and limited access to 30 more, an Associated Press analysis of de Blasio’s schedule shows. On a handful of days, his entire schedule was off limits. All told, more than 20 percent of his listed events were closed to the media.

Given de Blasio’s prior praise for Marxists, you’d think the Associated Press would have then made comparisons to the practices of Communist governments. Instead it goes soft, merely comparing him to Obambi—which, come to think of it, isn’t all that different.